Torch of reason., December 11, 1902, Page 2, Image 2

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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 11, E. M. 302 (1902.)
-ay- ‘It would seem, from such
opportunities as I have had to col-
lect
field, th
th at
hunting
lect facts
facts in
in the
the field,
a t hunting
and Other parlies are frequently
oocanized in such a m anner t t j
f might be hostile- and to m u m , .
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children as socially of the clan o f > ’ 7 * '' * " et ,er
were ready
STATE EDUCATION.
the
father,
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nusly of (he clan of the m olh’ r
Urch and 8ta,®> wh«‘her « people [•» Public Ignorance the Only Remedy
„a s ^-create a X u l n intoT rable i S
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the male members of a clan group
proceed together in com pany with
their wives and children. U nder
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to the barbarian mind. Bv the ex- sirfer it
8 j ®hould con-
BY H E R B E R T S P E N C E R .
pedient of adopting the captured or ahi 1 an uuexPectec or unreason-
purchased wife i n t he clan an
bf
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, " an<) the denom inational schools of that
In the forties this question of ed-
. • • •
;>-> v< ít, , , , , , , m i
agzuvy
fam ily necessarily fails into the was overcome. C hildren were then, vz.uZco. Aod here neb Coe
was frequently argued between mv
of
B
alfour’s
position.
He
knows
hands of the husbands and fathers. in every sense, of the kindred of
that the opposition cannot answer self and a valued friend, who in
This happens am ong Pueblo In d i­ the father.
him , or at least are not ready yet those days wrote letters urging th at
ans, a m atriarchal people with fe­
to give him an answ er th a t would C hurch-property should be laid
m ale descent, whose clans, in con­
B A L F O U R S V IC T O R Y .
sound like a menace of social and under contribution to provide
sequence of the scarcity of water for
means. H olding the views I did
irrigation in their desert regions, The End of Secular Education in England. political revolution.
Nevertheless there are not lackiug even at th at time respecting the lim ­
are obliged to separate widely for
itation of S tate functions, I was op­
(P o rtla n d O reg o n ia n , Dec. 5.)
the cultivation of lands at a d ist­
m any able, educated Englishm en,
posed, for both general and special
ance from the centrai pueblo. The
I he hill has passed substantially like Lord Rosebery, who believe
result is th at the control of fam i­ in the shape desired by the English that the passage o f this hill, so far reasons. The general reason, allied
The control of the from settling the question, will have to reasons which took definite
lies and the training of children are churchm en.
shapes at a later tim e, was th at
tem porarily taken out of the hands teaching force of the church schools, unsettled it and left the seeds of
society is a product of developm ent
of their own kin on the m other’s supported hy the state, will be kept bitter civil and religious discord be­
and not m anufacture. The special
side; and with the acquisition of by the clericals. It ¡8 true th at the hind. Ih e Nonconformists intend
cattle in these new homes comes a bill gives the representatives of ihe ed, if Gladstone had rem ained in reason, harm onizing with th is gen­
eral reason, was th a t the law of
tendency to settle p erm anently.”
taxpayers the right to reorganizeor power, to press for the disestablish­
dism iss the teaching staff of such m ent of the church in Wales. It is supply and dem and extends from
P astoral I ndustry .— T h at a
the m aterial sphere to the m ental
schools,
provided
th
at
they
are
“
ed­
quite
probable
th
at
long
before
the
change of kinship may he effected,
sphere, and th a t as interference with
ucationally inefficient.” But this close of the present century there
h o w e v e r, it is neccsary th at the hus­
the supply and dem and of com m o­
will
he
a
powerful
party
in
E
ngland
concession
is
worthless,as
thechurch
band shall not only g e t posession of
dities is m ischievous, so is in terfe r­
his wife and her children, hut also is alw ays able to secure denom ina­ urging the disestablishm ent of the ence with the supply and dem and
keep posession of them . If he a b a n ­ tional teachers who are “educa English Church. When th a t day of cultured faculty.
M any years
tionally
efficient.”
The
teachers
in
comes,
while
the
Irish
p
arty
will
dons them or sends them hack to the
later my friend confessed th a t his
the
church
schools
will
he
men
who
have
no
interest
in
its
settlem
ent,
m other clan, no patronym ic kinship
will be sure to diffuse the religious for the Irish Church was disestab­ experience as a m agistrate in G lou­
can he established.
cestershire had changed his opin­
atm osphere of the Church of E ng­ lished in 1868, nevertheless they
A motive for retaining posession
ion. It had shown him th a t ed u ­
land all through them . H itherto will vote with the English Non­
of wife and children came into e x is ­
cation artificially pressed forward,
the voluntary schools have been conform ists to disestablish the Eng-
tence when the horde desired to
raising in the laboring and artisan
m aintained by the denom ination lish Church in order to be a thorn
strengthen its fighting force by re ar­
classes am bitions to en ter upon
from private funds, with the aid of in the side of the governm ent, even
ing hoys, and still father when the
higher careers, led, through fre­
a small governm ent subsidy. Under as O’Connell voted with the oppo­
labor of women in field c u ltiv a ­
quent disappointm ents, to had
the education bill, which has jus sition to Sir Robert Peel.
tion had become so far system atized
courses and som etim es to crim e.
passed, such schools are to provide
There
is
an
old
proverb
which
th a t captured women as well as
The general belief he had reached
and m aintain their buildings free says, “ Let sleeping dogs lie.” It is
hoys were useful to the tribe. The
was th a t mischief results when in-
of charge, in return for which their probable th a t the passage of this
motive to retain possession of off­
tellectual ization goes in advance oi
running expenses are to be met m easure will wake the “sleeping
spring attained
its
m axim um
m oralization— a belief which, ex­
from the public funds.
dog”
of
disestablishm
ent
o f the state
strength, however, only with the
pressed by him in other and less
Ih
e
schools
are
nom
inally
re­
church,
and
when
that
debate
opens
appearance of forms of industry
definite words, at first startled me,
the
Nonconformists,
and
not
Mr.
sponsible
in
strictly
educational
th a t engaged the interest and efforts
though it soon became clear th at it
Balfour,
will
have
the
logical
ad­
m
atters
to
the
County
or
M
unicipal
of men, and gave value to the la ­
was congruous with the views I had
vantage
iu
the
argum
ent.
Council
of
the
district,
and
to
the
often urged.
bor of sons. In most parts of the
C
entral
Board
of
E
ducation,
but
in
world this happened as a conse­
Here I am not about to enter at
T h e M o rm o n T e m p le .
quence of the dom estication of a n i­ religious m atters and as respects
length on the general question of
mals. In the pastoral life was born local m anagem ent generally, they
The M orm on T em ple a t S alt L ake C ity S tate-education; otherw ise I should
the desire to m ultiply herds and are responsible to boards of m anag­ is no d o u b t th e m ost su b s ta n tia l an d dem ur to the assum ption th a t any
herdsm en, and to tran sm it property ers appointed on the basis of two well c o n stru cted religious edifice in th e governm ent is com petent to say
representatives from the denom ina­ U nited States, if n o t in th e world. C or­
to sons.
tion to one from the com m unity at n er stone laid A pril 6, 1853; cap sto n e what education should be, eith er in
W ife P urchase — As the value of large.
I hey are really church Apfil 6, 1892; and ded icated A pril 6, m atter, m anner, or order; I should
women and children increased, and schools , supported hy the state, and 1893; over forty years of c o n stan t labor contest its right to impose its sys­
as in d u stry in some measure diver­ the beneficiaries of the measure are being consum ed in its co n stru ctio n . T h is tem of culture upon the citizen, so
ted attention from war, m arriage by practically only Church of England m agnificent stru c tu re 200 feet long, 100 th at under penalty for disobedience
purchase g rad ually succeeded m a r­ schools and a few Roman Catholic feet wide, is built e n tire ly of U tah w hite his children may be moulded after
g ra n ite , beautifully carved, sym bolic of
riage by capture. Purchase gave institutions.
its approved p attern ; and I should
1 th e M orm on faith , su rm o u n ted by six
the husband even greater au th o rity
The passage of this measure is a tow ers, th e highest being 230 feet from deny the equity of taking, through
over the wife th an he secured by most im p o rtan t event for its enact
* r° Un<1, 8aPP°r ^ n g a bronze s ta tu e the rates, the earnings of A to pay
,
u
,
° f th e a,lgel M an n i . T he COSt of th is for teaching the children of B. I
capture, since his right to a p u r­ m e n t w i l l , ♦
Will not m ark the end of the b u ild in g is ab o u t $6,000,000. T h ere are
chased wife could not be denied by
should, in short, protest once more
controversy. The Nonconform ists many o th e r a ttrac tio n s a t S alt Lake C ity
her kinsm en. They wholly su r­
against th at political superstition
of E ngland are very strongly repre- !ot ’ntere8t to th e trav e le r o r to u rist,
rendered her; and she could cherish sented am ong the powerful w e a lth y w liere a day can be wel1 8P«nt. T he Rio which has replaced the divine rig h t
no hope of restoration to them .
a n d intelligent m iddle classes and ° ra.n<,e *8 th®. onlf T ra n s-c o n tin e n ta l of kings by the divine right of p a r­
a-
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d ro n te Pa98,ng directly th ro u g h Salt L ake liam ents. But I m ust lim it myself
he h u sb an d ’s a u th o rity was they are favorable to the com plete
l ltv, w here a stopover is allow ed on all
u rth er increased hy religion. It secularization of n ational schools- classes of tickets. The service of th e Rio to the issue im plied above—d en y ­
ing the com m only supposed co n ­
often
happened th a t the totem ic be- they
have - come
to believe in the
ree 11 tra
in s
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nets of m etronym ic tribal com- American idea of non-denom ina- dai,y betwwn Ogden and Denver, carry - nection between intellectual c u ltu re
m oral
and
m unities presented a serious oh- tional public schools Tl
ing al1 classes of m odern e q u ip m en t. If a and
nd m
o r a * im provem
p ro v e m ent;
e n tja
n d g giv-
iv -
stacle to the plan of descent through nents of Mr B a lf n n r ’a .
° P ^ ° ’ -v ou a re c o n te ™P,a t,n fr a t r i p t o th e E a st, in8 evidence th a t a society is not
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birth to the totem of the m other. ¡ lor that astute, sublle-m indedM ates.’ ‘h® world” : " ' c - M c B ridv , G e o ’l A g t;
Ihe totems of m other and fa th e r,...a n could easily ask the Xoncon-
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